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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.

Contributor:

Cecco, d'Ascoli, 1269-1327.

Capuano, Francesco, active 1490.

Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sphaera mundi

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

180, 201-253 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 30 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Venetijs : Impensa heredum quondam Domini Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis ac sociorum, 19 Januarij 1518.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Cichi Esculani cum textu

Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem

Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis

Theodosij de Speris

Michaelis Scoti

Q[uaesti]ones Reuere[n]dissimi D[omi]ni Petri de Aliaco [et]c

Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium

Tractatus de sphera solida

Tractatus de sphera campani

Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem

Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio

Textus Theorice cu[m] exp[ositi]one Joa[n]nis Baptiste Capuani

Ptolomeus de speculis.

Notes:

By Joannes de Sacro Bosco.

Publication statement from colophon on leaf 2G5v.

Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶.

Leaf 2G6 is blank; leaves G2 and G3 signed F2 and F3, respectively.

Errors in foliation: leaves 92, 97 misnumbered 192, 81.

Register on leaf 2G5v.

Woodcut initials, illustration and printer's device.

Text printed in double columns.

"Bartholomei Vespuccii Flore[n]tini ... Oratio habita in celeberrimo Gymnasio Patauino ...": leaves 2-3.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Lea copy imperfect: leaf 2G6 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries Lea copy bound in full vellum with evidence of ties; ms. author, title, place and date of publication on spine; Henry Charles Lea's autograph (1889) on front cover and his bookplate affixed to inside front cover.

Penn Libraries Lea copy has covers and backstrip detached and affixed to textblock with modern tape; leaves dampstained at head and tail margins throughout; dampstaining to lower portion of leaves at beginning and end of volume; occasional wormholes in tail margin.

Penn Libraries Lea copy: a gathering of four leaves (signed with a section mark; foliated 5-8 in ms.) titled "De imaginatione sphere" has been inserted between leaves A4 and B1; it contains two texts: "De recta imaginatione sphaerae" by Thabit ibn Qurra and "Theorica planetarum", here attributed to Joannes Cremonensis.

Penn Libraries Lea copy has ms. notes amplifying contents list on title leaf; occasional ms. marginal notes and marks in three different hands in text.

Penn Libraries Lea copy has some expurgations on leaves A3-D3: the offending passages have been struck through and were at one point papered over (cf. remains on leaves A3v and D3r), the removal of which paper has usually damaged the leaf; most of these expurgations are accompanied by ms. marginal notes, primarily in a single hand (the expurgator's?), pointing them out.

Cited in:

Panzer, VIII, 944

Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, I:447-449

Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.), I, 1:755

OCLC:

36117050